Chapter 14

At 3:00 am, Tyler stood outside the ICU, watching Emma through the glass. Her body was riddled with tubes and wires. Her complexion was deathly pale, and her shoulder was wrapped in layers of gauze. Her breathing was so faint that it felt like it could stop any second. She was undoubtedly on the brink of death. The truth hit him like a slow, dragging wound. He couldn't deny it anymore—somewhere along the way, he had fallen in love with her. He raised a trembling hand and pressed it against the glass. "I need you to do two things for me. Find out who was behind the abduction…" Seeing her so pale and broken in that bed tore him up inside. "Second, I want Fraegan Hospital under my name." Keith was taken aback. "Are you serious about buying the hospital?" Michael's mocking words played on repeat in Tyler's mind. It felt like salt was being rubbed on an open wound. How could he let the woman he loved fall into such a dangerous situation and get hurt so badly? Tyler instructed, "Fro